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Yellow Ruffle Cake

A birthday cake made for a friend who requested a black forest yellow ruffle cake.

I used Pioneer Woman’s choc sheet cake (and promptly forgot to add baking powder, derr.. This resulted in a super dense cake that did not rise) and filled it with this chocolate mousse, by the way if you haven’t tried that mousse yet, DO it. It is ambrosially amazing. I am counting the days to make it again! Also soo easy. I also added some frozen cherries to the mousse. Piped the ruffles with swiss meringue buttercream. For a final touch, I grated some dark chocolate and tried to make a heart shape using a heart shaped cutout of baking paper as a rough guide.

Thanks Wendy 🙂 If you like cake decorating, I say give it a try! Honestly the first time I looked at a ruffle cake I thought it would be really fiddly and difficult, but it is honestly one of the easiest decorating tricks I have ever learnt.. If you want to try it, watch this vid! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHYX0qXDVy0
It taught me everything I need to know about ruffle cakes! 🙂

Gorgeous! I’ve been in love with the ruffle cake decoration, this makes me want to try it myself! Haha don’t worry I’ve forgotten to add baking powder to my cakes before. I even forgot to add eggs once, that was a disaster!

Thanks Christie! Yeah, I took it to church and it got nommed pretty quickly, and also because the cake was so dense, a lot of the mousse squished its way out so the pics I took didn’t look the greatest, hehe.

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Hi! I'm Christine - I'm a Sydney based chef student by day & food blogger by night. I love learning about food every single day and share my adventures with you here. Thanks for reading! You can contact me on christine@cookingcrusade.com - I'd love to hear from you!